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Making Hardware with KiCad and Friends
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KiCad is a well-established Open Source EDA suite that provides tools
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for most of the basic tasks in circuit design. In larger projects,
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and especially those of an open and collaborative nature, additional
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requirements appear that KiCad can only partially satisfy.
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Specifically, collaborative projects benefit from visualization that
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helps to quickly follow the work of others and to track a project's
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revision history. Furthermore, an automated and thus easily
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reproducible workflow lowers the barrier of entry and avoids costly
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mistakes.
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In the Qi-Hardware project, we use KiCad as the centerpiece for various
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hardware designs and enhance its functionality with patches or external
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programs. This presentation will describe the complete workflow from
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design to fabrication, introduce the various tools we use to complement
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KiCad, and also briefly address common design rules.
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